'Patti Cake$' Review: Join Patti on her own 8 Mile odyssey!

🍰 Patti Cake$ 🍰 Review 🍰 8.7/10 🍰

From the get go you instantly feel that music is not only Patti's life, but her saviour, her bright-light in a very dim world, filled with ridicule, a couple of dead end jobs and a rather nasty mother with her own problems.

She finds solace in her rapping, spitting her lyrics, and making dem rhymes with her crew; loving Nana, best friend jizzy, jammy Jheri and mysterious-anarchist/new-found "friend" Basterd. PB&J!!!

She wants to get out, she wants "to be someone" and she believes that her music is the way to do that, but, it's not an easy road to stardom or shall I even say semi-stardom, it's a tough gritty road with many lumps and bumps along the way, kinda like her own 8 Mile odyssey.

What a brilliant directorial debut from Geremy Jasper who wrote it as-well (being loosely based around his past life), the dialogue, editing, visuals, the hole score was brilliant, the way he balanced the movie throughout with comedy, drama, raw emotion, pain and rejoicing was perfect, it all blended together so well. Some of the tunes they came out with were lyrically sound, I was really impressed with that to, I mean it's no 8mile but it's still bloody good!

The acting from some new young faces was great and rather refreshing; Danielle MacDonald aka Killer P, aka Patti Cake$, Siddharth Dhananjay (Jheri) and Mamoudou Athie (Bastard). Only problem I had was the fact there could of been a tad more character development for almost everyone but Patti and the references to the illuminati (or is that just me) otherwise I loved it and recommend! Connor outskies, drop the micskies!!